Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770 - 1827

Twenty years after Bach's death, Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn. 1770. A group of musicians, the grandfather and the father, were already well-known musicians. However, here the transfer of
these genes to a next generation ends. Beethoven was not married and had no children. Impossible for a musician: he died deaf.

I can read more about his work especially, but also about his life on the following cool homepages, as I could ever get together. You can find news about Beethoven here.